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Ventriloquizzing, their fourth album, finds the quartet in more experimental mode, though they’ve clearly not abandoned their dance aesthetic. Both Cat Got Your Tongue and Yoyo dash along nicely, David Best’s trademark whispered vocals adding a vaguely sinister sense of foreboding. But producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver) also helps coax a new set of textures. Spilt Milk, for instance, starts off all Kraftwerk, then just gets progressively weirder. As does Pills, which builds like some spacey 60s psych oddity, replete with plinks of trebly electro.
There are strange lyrical twists too. Minestrone, with its Doors-y keyboard motif, summons up an old satanic rite enacted around a hill fort in the South Downs. And Tinsel & Glitter seems to be a less than flattering address to X Factor culture: "We can stick our fingers in our ears / A pair of stilettos can hit the high notes / Dressed up in ribbons and bows". There’s a delicious moment where synth player Steve Lewis delivers a chugging riff that sounds hot-wired from Suicide’s first album. Other stylistic forays aren’t quite so successful. Take Sixteen Shades of Black & Blue, which thumps along to a stack-heeled glam beat, but doesn’t really go anywhere.
It’s a minor quibble though. Fujiya & Miyagi are an invigorating mix of the cerebral and the visceral. In a just world, they’d be the new lords of the dancefloor.
--Rob Hughes
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Stylistically, the album is less varied than Lightbulbs, lacking that record's softer side, but the new songs simply don't engage on the level of Transparent Things. Honestly, I just can't place my finger on why the new Fujiya & Miyagi material doesn't live up to the old, but suffice to say, whatever magic happened on that record simply isn't here, much to my dismay. I think ardent fans of the band will enjoy having a new set of tunes to groove to, but for a more casual fan of the band, such as myself, this one just doesn't do it. The album sounds flat despite solid production, and the songs just don't have the hooks to grab your attention.
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